Concerned Women for America

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Concerned Women for America, headed by Beverly LaHaye, wife of evangelist and pastor Tim LaHaye, is a leading religious right organization. The group has long opposed abortion and women's rights, being originally formed to fight against the Equal Rights Amendment, and has recently become much more vocally opposed to equal rights for lesbians and gay people, and to the National Education Association, for it's support for a Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual History Month. Concerned Women for America has also recently taken a decidedly nativist turn in their pronouncements, opposing much United Nations involvement by the United States, and several United Nations conferences on the rights of women and children.

An article from a Fundamental Baptist publication attacking Tim LaHaye for ecumenism and a number of other real or imagined transgressions. Gives a very good background of Tim and Beverly LaHaye's history as part of the religious right.

Another article from a fundamentalist Christian perspective, attacking Tim and Beverly LaHaye for ecumenism and a number of other transgressions. This document also gives an excellent background history of Tim and Beverly LaHaye's involvement in the religious right.

A letter from CWA to its members, dated November 1995, attacking the National Education Association and gays and lesbians.

Text of half-page ad run by Concerned Women for America, nationwide in newspapers on 13 October, 1995.

GLAAD Media Watch for 16 December, 1994, documenting CWA's attacks upon Macy's department stores for their advertising in The Advocate.

GLAAD Reports for July 1994, documenting CWA's targetting of Ben & Jerry's support of the Sexual Minority Youth Action League.

GLB-NEWS posting documenting CWA's letter urging their members to support Senator Jesse Helm's S.25, a piece of anti-gay legislation.

GLB-NEWS posting documenting CWA's portrayal of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund as "a militant homosexual group demanding special rights", and documenting the resulting flood of hate mail from CWA members.

Transcript of radio interview of Beverly LaHaye, president of CWA, attacking the sixth North American Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Conference.

Cites Tim LaHaye's (husband of CWA head Beverly LaHaye) book The Unhappy Gays: What Everyone Should Know About Homosexuality as an authority on what causes a person to "develop a predisposition to homosexuality."